In Memory
Amos Wylie Prentice (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from In Memory: Amos Wylie Prentice<br><br>Always interested in public affairs and ready to bear his part in them, though never seeking office, he was called by his fellow-citizens to serve as Representative and Senator in the State Legislature, County Commissioner, member of the City Council, and Mayor of the city. He was entrusted with many positions of great responsibility in the financial affairs of the city, being for many years senior director in the First National Bank, and president of the Norwich Savings Society - the second largest in the State of Connecticut. He was also one of the Trustees of the Norwich Free Academy, and Deacon in the Broadway Congregational Church. All these offices and others that we do not mention he honored by sound judgment, fidelity and efficiency, and in them won the respect and confidence of those with whom he associated.<br><br>He rendered signal service in the time of the Civil war, contributing freely at its beginning for the raising and equipping of its soldiers, presiding with rare grace and dignity at the great meetings which did so much for the kindling of patriotism and the sustaining of the general government, cooperating in confidential relations with his intimate and life-long friend, Governor Buckingham, and in many large-hearted ways proving his worthiness as a citizen and patriot.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.